Stallone's Tulsa King TV series

[Andrew NDB]

[joe-eyeball]

Definitely looking forward to this! Sly is the man!

[Coola Yagami]

They musta done wonders with the make up. Stallone pretty much looks like himself, just obviously with age and wrinkles, but if you ever seen his recent Cameo vids, dude is looking super rough. And I mean even different facial structure and such.

[Autbot_Benz]

Man I love Sly why did this have to be on Paramount Plus. Why not Hulu or on TV ie FX or something

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

Man I love Sly why did this have to be on Paramount Plus. Why not Hulu or on TV ie FX or something

Because Paramount owns the production company, next question? Maybe if whoever pitched the show did so to Disney and they picked it up, it would have been on Hulu or FX. But clearly it either wasn't pitched to Disney or they didn't pick it up, so Paramount ended up getting it instead. I mean it's only a slightly better question than asking why Paramount+ are the ones to get new Star Trek, Beavis & Butt-Head and TMNT.

I get that it sucks that it's on a streaming service with relatively few subscribers and is thus less likely to be seen by people who might be interested, but there really isn't much to say. Paramount made it and want it on their platform, simple as. If it makes you feel any better, it's probably going to be shown on some TV channel, be on some other service after a while or get a blu-ray release.

[joe-eyeball]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Because Paramount owns the production company, next question? Maybe if whoever pitched the show did so to Disney and they picked it up, it would have been on Hulu or FX. But clearly it either wasn't pitched to Disney or they didn't pick it up, so Paramount ended up getting it instead. I mean it's only a slightly better question than asking why Paramount+ are the ones to get new Star Trek, Beavis & Butt-Head and TMNT.

I get that it sucks that it's on a streaming service with relatively few subscribers and is thus less likely to be seen by people who might be interested, but there really isn't much to say. Paramount made it and want it on their platform, simple as. If it makes you feel any better, it's probably going to be shown on some TV channel, be on some other service after a while or get a blu-ray release.

Taylor Sheridan, the creator of this show is the guy that also created Yellowstone and it’s various spinoffs. I believe he signed an exclusive mega deal with Paramount?

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by joe-eyeball

Taylor Sheridan, the creator of this show is the guy that also created Yellowstone and it’s various spinoffs. I believe he signed an exclusive mega deal with Paramount?

Well, there we have it, a better answer than I gave.

[Andrew NDB]

I've watched the first two episodes. I was a little worried this may come off a little corny or Stallone would seem a bit too old for the material... but no, this is great. He's like a juggernaut in this.

Good grief, he's 76. Unbelievable.

[IMJ]

Looking forward to watching this one when I get around to it as well.....

[Andrew NDB]

Shesus, the season 2 finale was incredible. Very unexpected results.

[IMJ]

Yeah, it's a great show. Got started watching Yellowstone too....

[Andrew NDB]

All caught up with season 3 now. Samuel L. Jackson hasn't showed up yet but he's supposed to.

Pretty good so far. Getting more focused. Shedding 2 characters from season 1 and 2 that weren't working so well is a good thing.

[IMJ]

It's a good season so far.
Just weird seeing the season 3 villain who was also the villain across the season of Reacher I just wrapped up too. I keep expecting him to turn into liquid metal or something....

[Andrew NDB]

And for me, he was just over in Peacemaker season 2 as Peacemaker's nazi/not nazi dad. And of course in video games he's literally the T-1000 again in Mortal Kombat 1.

[Andrew NDB]

Hey, how about this latest one? It's almost like a standalone Samuel L. Jackson and Stallone buddy comedy. I love it.

[Andrew NDB]

Season finale was pretty good! A little less surprising than the season 2 finale. The whole thing is the episode starts and they plan to invade and shoot up Robert Patrick's mansion and kill everyone... and that's exactly what they do. With Samuel L. Jackson in the mix. No real twists or "just kiddings!" or anything.

[CyberCubed]

I caught up on this show on the illegal streaming sites this week, I had no idea it even existed. It's hilarious Stallone is 78-80 years old when he filmed this, and he's going around punching people and sending them flying or hitting people with baseball bats like he's still 30 years old or something.

And all the gang members or mobsters on the opposing side can't take out this 78 year old man coming towards them. Stallone is definitely on a power fantasy here.

I really like the supporting characters too. Bodhi and Tyson are pretty likeable, and Grace went from a minor side character to a much better one. And Dana Delaney his love interest/the ranch owner is pretty cool too. But man the opposing gangsters are as dumb as they come, they all make stupid mistakes and they're wondering why they'll all killed off by Stallone or other characters by the end of each season.

[IMJ]

One of the things I like about the Taylor Sheridan shows is that they are old school in that the protagonists always wind up "winning". And I'm okay with that.

There is still a sense that anyone could wind up dead (like how Chickee was this main bad guy and then he was just dropped suddenly and unceremoniously out of nowhere), but ultimately things sort of wind up falling in the "good guys" favor.

[sdp]

Why is Stallone so famous? I only knew he was Rocky/Rambo but I actually didn't watch any of the movies until the mid 2010s for the first time. I also watched Rambo also around that same time. Did he ever do anything else after that? I don't think he made anything in the 90s that was popular.
Arnold was popular in the 80s but he was just as big in the 90s, I knew and watched his movies in the 90s. Stallone just seemed like someone from a different era for me.

[CyberCubed]

Demolition Man was in the 90's, Judge Dredd, Copland (with Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta), Challenger and a few others.

Like most 80's/90's movie stars, his career cratered in the early 2000's mostly making bad/forgettable movies. Outside of Rocky Balboa and Rambo 4, he didn't have anything else until Expendables 2, and that one movie he and Scwarzeneggar starred in (Escape Plan). Then that was basically it till the Creed series started.

But almost every star had their career crater in the early 2000's, same thing happened to Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Arnold, Harrison Ford, Eddie Murphy, Kurt Russel, Jean Claude Van Dam, and most others besides like Tom Cruise.